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1-4 of 4 - Denk, August 27, 2023 >INVENTORY - Paul O'Brian writes about interactive fiction Coming Home is an unremittingly awful game, one which never should have been released publicly. It's hard to think of it even as an exercise for the author to learn Inform, so buggy and illogical are its basic design and implementation. Perhaps it could be considered a first step toward learning the language; in my opinion, such bumbling, poor initial efforts have no place in a public forum, let alone a competition. It's not much fun wandering through somebody's ill-conceived, cobbled-together, inside-joke universe. In fact, playing Coming Home is a kind of Zen torture, an experiment in just how unpleasant interactive fiction can possibly be. Perhaps it's what IF is like in Hell.
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A shortish, buggy game about wandering around your own house, July 30, 2016by MathBrush This game seems like it was written quickly, not beta tested, and by someone with not much inform experience at the time. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Baf's GuideAwful. Even the goal isn't clear--you arrive at home and wander around aimlessly. Crawling with bugs, offensive--you order your mother to get you food, clean up after you, etc.--and just plain annoying. Good for MSTing, but not much else. -- Duncan Stevens
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